David F. Wells

For other people called David Wells, see David Wells (disambiguation).

David Falconer Wells (born 1939) is Distinguished Senior Research Professor at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.^[1] He is the author of several books in which his evangelical theology engages with the modern world.

Wells received his B.D. from the University of London; Th.M. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Ph.D. from Manchester University (England); and was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at Yale Divinity School. Wells is a Council member of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. The Cambridge Declaration came about in 1996 as a result of his book No Place for Truth, or Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?

Books

He has authored or co-authored numerous publications including:

1971, Toward a theology for the future (edited with Clark H. Pinnock)
1973, Revolution in Rome
1975, The Evangelicals : what they believe, who they are, where they are changing (edited with John D. Woodbridge)
1978, The Search for Salvation
1979, The prophetic theology of George Tyrrell
1984, The person of Christ : a biblical and historical analysis of the incarnation
1985, Reformed theology in America : a history of its modern development (ed.)
1987, God the evangelist : how the Holy Spirit works to bring men and women to faith
1988, Christian faith and practice in the modern world (edited with Mark A. Noll)
1989, Turning to God : Biblical conversion in the modern world
1991, The Gospel in the modern world : a tribute to John Stott (edited with Martyn Eden)
1993, No place for truth, or, Whatever Happened to Evangelical Theology?
1994, God in the wasteland : reality of truth in a world of fading dreams
1995, The bleeding of the evangelical church
1998, Losing our virtue : why the church must recover its moral vision
2005, Above all earthly pow'rs : Christ in a postmodern world
2008, The Courage to Be Protestant: Truth-lovers, Marketers, and Emergents in the Post-Modern World

References

	Christianity portal
	Biography portal

^ http://www.gcts.edu/prospective_students/david_f_wells

External links

David Wells faculty page at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Interview with David Wells January 2006, relating to his book, Above All Earthly Pow'rs
The Nature and Function of Theology by David F. Wells

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